thanks sphinx, I have since found a system on my computer which comes with the dvd writer and was able to copy onto dvd. unfortunately they only play on computer not in dvd player.
any ideas what I am doing wrong and how I can put this right. by the way I also don't know if it's just me but wmp does not seem to recogonise that I have a dvd writer but it seems to think its only a cd-rw and dvd player.